BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE: Roundtable

4/9/2010 - 4/10/2010

FACULTY CLUB, SEABORG ROOM

Friday, April 9, 2010

8:00 am Registration

Morning Session: John Askedal (Chair)

8:20 am P. Bennett, M. Durrell, S. Scheible, J. Whitt. (Univ. of Manchester, UK) Grammaticalization, Prescriptivism, and the Status of the würde + Infinitive Construction in Early Modern German: Evidence from the GerManC      Corpus

8:40 am Murielle Etoré (Univ. of Paris IV-Sorbonne) Research on Verbs of Motion in German and English Economics Language

9:00 am Adams LaBorde (Univ. of Texas) Redefining Three Old Saxon Prepositions

9:20 am Toshihiro Oda (Fukuoka University, Japan) Another Early Schwa: The Underlying Vowel of Old English Syllabic Consonants 

  9:40 am Bhavani Saravanan (Stony Brook University) Monosyllable English Words in Tamil

10:00 am Thomas F. Shannon (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Was Quirky Case Rampant in Middle Dutch? Methinks Not

10:20 am Emilie Caratini (Univ. of Nice) \\\\\\\"Divorce\\\\\\\" in the History of German

10:40 am Guido Halder (Univ. of Texas) Frame-Semantics and German Support Verb Constructions

11:00 am VERONIKA EHRICH (Universität Tübingen) (In-)Subordination in German

12:00 - 1:20 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Sang Seong (Chair)

1:20 pm Valentine Pakis (Univ. of Minnesota) Historical Pragmatics and the Etymology of an Old English Hapax Legomenon

1:40 pm Matthias Fritz (State Linguistic V. Brusov University of Yerevan) Understanding the Case of Instrumental in Old High German through Its Modern Counterparts in Armenian and Russian

2:00 pm Roslyn Burns (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Case-Gender Paradigms in North American Mennonite Low German

  2:20 pm Dorian Roehrs (Univ. of North Texas) Different Readings in Nominal and Clausal Combinations of Pronouns and Nouns

  2:40 pm Karen Roesch Univ. of Texas) Wearing a Linguistic Badge of Identity: The Preservation of Marked Features in a Texas-Alsatian Community

3:00 pm Christian Schwägerl (Universität Mannheim) Language Contact and Displays of Social Identity - The Communicative and Ideo- logical Dimension of German-English Code-Mixing in a Business Setting

3:20 pm Marc Pierce (Univ. of Texas) The Spread and Survival of Twaddell\\\\\\\'s Theory of Old High German Umlaut

3:40 pm Nyssa Bulkes (Northern Illinois University) \\\\\\\"Een kopje thee, graag\\\\\\\": A Synchronic Discourse Analysis of Diminutive Dutch Adjectival Endings

4:00 pm Anatoly Liberman (Univ. of Minnesota) Sapir\\\\\\\'s Drift and the Voicing of Fricatives in Germanic

7:00 pm Dinner: Howard Lounge CHARLES BARRACK (Univ. of Washington) What You Always Wanted to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask about German   Grammatical Terminology

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Morning Session: Thomas Shannon (Chair)

8:20 am Dankmar Enke (Uni Tübingen) Meredith Kolar (Univ. of California, Berkeley) On the Conceptualization of Spatial and Non-Spatial Representations of the Preposi- itions über and over in German and American English: A Case of Polysemy in the Cognitive Framework

8:40 am Jeremy Bergerson (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Dialect Contact in Germanic: The Case of Namibian German and Afrikaans

9:00 am Jessica Plummer (Univ. of Texas) Verbal Anglicisms in German-Separable or Inseparable?

9:20 am Jason Kooiker (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Swiss German Medial Diglossia and the Classroom: New Fieldwork Data from Zurich

9:40 am Sang Hwan Seong (Seoul National University) German L2 Acquisition Process and Deictic Systems

10:00 am Jill Beckman (Univ. of Iowa), Michael Jessen (Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden)   Catherine Ringen (Univ. of Iowa) German Intervocalic Stops Differ from Stops in True Voice Languages: Empirical Evidence

10:20 am Chris Sapp (Univ. of Mississippi) The Verbal Complex in Old High German

10:40 am Ann-Marie Svensson & Jürgen Hering (Göteborg Univ. Sweden) \\\\\\\"Panter is an wilde der.\\\\\\\" On Deer, Beast, Animal  in English

11:00 am GRZEGORZ DOGIL (Uni Stuttgart, Inst. for Natural Language Processing) How Does Language Learning Influence Brain Activity: Real-time fMRI Study of Processing of Prosody

12 - 1:40 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Anatoly Liberman (Chair)   1:40 pm John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo) The Manifold Semantic and Syntactic Functions of the Norwegian Verb fa\\\\\\\' \\\\\\\'get.\\\\\\\'   Basic Meaning, Lexicalization, and Grammaticalization

2:00 pm Klaas Willems (Ghent University, Belgium) The Semantics of Case with Two-way Prepositions in German: Introspection and Observation

  2:20 pm Gerald Tilma (Univ. of Texas) Gif mec dea∂ , nime∂ : Death Takes The Indicative

2:40 pm Gwanhi Yun (Daegu University, Korea) Production of German Final Devoicing by Korean Learners of German

3:00 pm David Chisholm (Univ. of Arizona) Recent Diachronic Changes in German Prosody

3:20 pm Irmengard Rauch (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Lost in Translation: Sound?

3:40 pm Julisa Edwards, Justin Farwell, Carolyn Hawkshaw, Mary Ellen LeBlanc, Chris Little, Stephanie Peltner, Tim Price, Michael St.   Clair, Peter Woods, (Univ. of California, Berkeley) BAG XI: Toward Human : Canine Communication

4:00 pm Wine / cheese

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University of California Berkeley Center for German and European Studies and by the Max Kade Foundation, Inc.